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future ; with to-morrow one lias quite enough to do, without 

 troubhng one's head with the thought of weeks, and months, 

 and years. 



On tlie 15th I am off, Kivi-hunting at Hokitika ; and I hope 

 I may get a good many Apteryx oweni, if not A. australis. 



A. vox HiJGEL. 



The Marquis Doria, writing to Mr. Sclater from Genoa 

 (June loth), says that his last letters from L. M. d'Albertis 

 are from Yule Island, near Mously Bay, on the S.E. coast of 

 New Guinea, where he proposes to establish his headquarters. 

 His health was excellent. There can be little doubt there- 

 fore that this energetic naturalist will soon make known to 

 us the hitherto unexplored fauna of this part of Ncav Guinea. 



Since our last Number was issued several important works 

 on ornithology have been published. Of these avc hope to 

 give an account in our next Number. Mr. Gould has com- 

 pleted a new part of ' The Birds of Asia.^ Colonel Irby's 

 ' Ornithology of the Straits of Gibraltar ' is finished ; and the 

 first part of the second edition of Layard's ' Birds of South 

 Africa/ announced some time ago, has also reached us. 

 From abroad we have received Dr. Coues's important work 

 on the birds of the north-west, being an account of the 

 ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri river and 

 its tributaries. The last named contains a vast amount of 

 fresh information relating to North-American birds ; but we 

 must defer till October next a more lengthened account 

 of it. 



